Tag Archives: iPad

Tutorial: Auto Layout Part 2

Using Auto Layout in Interface Builder can prove trying. While it works reasonably well when you declare constraints on simple views hierarchies, Auto Layout in IB has a couple of major limitations. As you saw in our previous Auto Layout tutorial, you cannot declare constraints across views that do not share the same superview in […]

Tutorial: Auto Layout Part 1

What is Auto Layout? Auto Layout changes the way that you create your iOS and OS X user interfaces in simple, but powerful ways. Rather than explicitly setting the origin and size of UI elements, you declare constraints between views that describe how UI elements are displayed. Constraints represent the relationship between two user interface […]

Tutorial: Particle Systems in Core Animation with CAEmitterLayer

Particle Systems Particle systems are fun visual candy to add to your apps. They are often used to create smoke, explosions, and fire effects in games. They make great touches in productivity apps as well. Delicious Library, for example, famously consumes a book with a fire animation when you remove a book from your virtual […]

Tutorial: Sharing Data Locally Between iOS Apps

In the sandboxed world of iOS development sharing data between applications can prove difficult. There are a number of reasons you may want your application to share data with other applications. Releasing a paid app upgrade with a new SKU. Moving user data to a universal binary. Releasing a suite of complementary applications. Partnerships with […]

Fighting iPhone App Piracy

Protip: set up a Google alert for the name of your app and, if your app is particularly popular, the name of your app + “crack” and you’ll occasionally find a site with a cracked version of your app for download, often under the guise of some form of public service to promote “try before […]